alien_at_work

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by alien_at_work 8y ago
I view 'imply' as 'suggest' and 'prove' is 'this is a fact'. Correlation does in fact imply causation (which is why correlations are investigated). It just doesn't prove the causation. It ma
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Except that's not right. It may be. In fact persuing correlations is how we do science. At some point we gain enough confidence in the correlations that we call it causation.
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
>Today, if there's correlation, unless it's clearly spurious/etc, and unless somebody has a better idea, I tell the product/eng team to push hard on it and don't even mention correlation vs causation. Because it&
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
>never seek out advice from reliable resources. What reliable resources would those be? Poorly defined, crap studies done by people who've never had children and the study was never independantly reproduced by anyone? In the beginn
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Some of those are so bad as to be straight up dangerous (e.g. r/fitness).
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Posts like this seem so dishonest. The entire point of shilling would be hiding the fact that your shilling (otherwise you'd buy an ad), so of course we don't have deep documentation of exactly who is shilling when, where, how
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
>let's say polite Elon Musk Uh... where do you get this impression? My impression is that Musk easily fits in the same bucket as Ellison / Jobs / Bezos
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Are you seriously trying to claim Snopes isn't biased? I would say that's the more outrageous claim here. If Snopes is absent of any bias, what is their methodology by which they achieve that? Here is someone [1] who tried to
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
They weren't voting between Trump and no one. The alternative was Hillary Clinton. For a conservative christian you'll have a hard time finding someone they'd be more scared of having as president.
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Ugh. Is what happened so very difficult to understand? Chistians were faced with voting for someone they were generally not comfortable with vs. someone believed to be truly evil. Her husband votoed a bill to ban so named "partial b
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
That's not fair. Everyone had the option of voting so nothing is forced on anyone. If you don't like what the people who actually voted picked, then try voting next time.
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Funny enough, the creator of Perl's previously well known accomplishment was winning these contests pretty much any time he cared to join. Take that as you will.
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
>and then clarify the question title to reflect the problem they need help with. How many times have you seen that happen? Further that only occurs in an XY situation where the question was wrong. I've been hit by cases where the
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Again, you're assuming the question is "wrong". But how likely is it that every single person who asks that question is wrong? With your line of thinking you help the OP and anyone who gets in the exact same situation as th
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
> it is in my view completely useless if it doesn't solve the problem. Well, this is exactly the problem I'm describing: you're trying to solve the problem for one user when the answer is for everyone who could ever as
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
>In such cases where the OP and the community agrees, reformatting the question would avoid making a useless landing page. And if the question is 10 years old the day I need to reformat my linux hard drive? The OP might not even still
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
>since this is optimizing for a hypothetical future reader at the expense of the actual person having a problem Which is fine because there are N potential future readers but only one OP.
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
It's highly presumptious to assume you know better than the person asking. You might, but you might not. The fact that SO serves as a collection of programming knowledge, you do not know better than everyone who will ever search fo
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
No, this is unacceptable. Ideally you should first answer the question, then explain why it shouldn't be done. If you don't have enough time, then drop the second part. And the reason is not about the OP, the OP is irrelevant in
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Can you get an interest only loan on a home in the USA?
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
It's very simple: Unit tests test a specific "unit" (i.e. in an OO language, that's a class) and integration tests test the ingration of multiple units. In OO languages, I personally prefer unit tests with all dependanci
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Well, I think from Roy's point of view REST is only HATEOAS. So URL's are irrelevant; you can put version numbers in there if you want but no client should realize it. What you should be versioning is your media types (e.g. HTML4
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
> If the Golang team has had enough time to cherry pick the best ideas and lessons learned to build a language Except where have they done that? They've had 40 years and their solution to the C binary function error code return pro
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by alien_at_work 8y ago
Flagged. This comment is so awful, ignorant and offensive (especially to actual victims of sexual violence!). Wow, how on earth does someone come up with such a ludicrus, insane oppinion. Please learn what words (e.g. violence) mean befo
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>the entire discussion on QuickCheck is hard to really make sense of and arbitrary is a famously good use of type classes I found it understandable but for me the issue was: all the problems that author pointed out are true but you'
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
You only live once, personally I would pick the one that offers the most money. That way, if you find it boring you can always save up enough to live off of a year or two and then do your own thing. What is your alternative here? Keep get
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That's a pretty pro-Zuck view you have there. I think the courts are in a better position to decide and they found for the Winklevoss twins. Yes, they didn't get a lot of money but they got what they asked for.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>You are not paid by the value you create, but by supply/demand for the position. The labor market isn't the greatest place to talk about market forces. Companies do everything they legally (and illegally to an extent) can to
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Oh I see. Yes, I don't think SELinux could do exactly the scenario you decide because the things you're mentioning don't exist at the OS level. If you can figure out a way to make them something SELinux can get a context on
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I don't see why senior dev salaries should go any higher Because they're vastly underpaid compared to the value they produce. >At that point it would be easier to open office overseas even for smaller shops. Which means you

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